From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: ELPA policy Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:22:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <<87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr>>> <<5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru>> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> >> <<87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> >> <<87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> >> <<878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> >> <<874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org>> < <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> > <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org>> > > <> <> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447287789 11587 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2015 00:23:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 01:22:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwff8-0000DS-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:22:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwff7-0002kY-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwff1-0002kL-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwfew-0007lt-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:30906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwfev-0007ln-VL; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:22:38 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tAC0MWw6030557 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:22:33 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tAC0MVon032535 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:22:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tAC0MVtm017586; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:22:31 GMT In-Reply-To: <> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194180 Archived-At: > > Since pulling in data from the Web indiscriminately is not > > possible for this project (we have to make sure we're not > > unwittingly including code without a proper copyright assignment), > > perhaps we need as an "integrator": someone willing to guide the > > update of ELPA from various sources on the Web, keeping an eye out > > for changes that might affect copyright. >=20 > What we need to solve Drew's problem is to merge changes into a few > specific files from a specific place, and commit them using git. > Isn't that easy enough to do? >=20 > There could be one page where he provides the commit log info. > Whenever that page changes (we could check every 5 minutes), our demon > could merge in all the files which have changed. They it would email > the diffs to Drew so he could confirm what he installed. >=20 > Thus, when Drew wants to install a new version, he would change the > other pages first, then write the change log text into the log page. > Then wait 5 minutes and it's done. >=20 > This is assuming there are no other obstacles aside from the > mechanics of installing changes into our repository. I will again say that I don't expect that my situation is typical. There may be no one else out there who ever prefers something like it. But FWIW I think that what you describe would work for me.